Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Monday 22nd April 2019, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List.
You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.
Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you have been putting off, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favourite author, re-reads, ancients, non-fiction, books in translation — whatever you choose.)
On Monday 22nd April, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by 31st May, 2019.
We’ll check in here on the 31st May to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
What’s Next?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Monday 22nd April.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 31st May 2019.
This is meant to be a fun, social way to read another book from your classics club list. We’re very relaxed about how you set it up, we simply want you to read more classics!
Sometime this week, at your blog, you might post something like:
My Book Spin List for the Classics Club –
- Jane Eyre
- The Inferno
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Oliver Twist
- Clarissa
- Gone With the Wind
- Don Quixote
- Testament of Youth
- Richard III
- The Iliad
- Jude the Obscure
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Master and Margarita
- Dracula
- The Home and the World
- Sense & Sensibility
- Madame Bovary
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Antigone
- The Tale of Genji
(Obviously, YOU choose what books YOU want to list, in what order.)
Next Monday?
We will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, read (and hopefully, review) the book listed for that number by 31st May 2019.
So, if (for example) we announce #14, and if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Dracula.
The prize, of course, is the reading experience 🙂
When we announce the number next week, come back and tell us your spin title.
Who’s in?
Add the link for your spin list below and join in the discussion.
Hashtag: #ccspin
Finished my spin (on May 8th). Finally had the chance to write a little something. The Martian Chronicles https://www.truebookaddict.com/2019/05/novel-glimpses-10-martian-chronicles.html
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Finished and reviewed my #19, Daisy Miller. But I’ve already attacked another one from my list, #1, Dante Alighieri “The Divine Comedy”. Quite a bit larger, I’d say.
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Finally done with my spin, The Merry Wives of Windsor https://lesserknowngems.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-merry-wives-of-windsor-by-william-shakespeare/
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Finished my spin read of: The Old Man and the Sea
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My list:
https://achaemenids.blogspot.com/2019/04/classics-club-spin-20.html
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My timing is bad because I only saw the notification about the spin list late last week from other CC members but have already committed to a very chunky read for May – June.
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There’ll be another spin along before you know it 🙂
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What a wonderful challenge. I love classic books!
I am not a member (yet), but I have published my list here last week.
Looking forward to see which book I am about to read.
Have a good day everyone!
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https://wordpress.com/post/livingajourney.wordpress.com/346 😀
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I’m looking forward to what everyone will be reading–best wishes to all! It’s been a while since I have participated, so I’m especially eager.
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I’m so sorry that I forgot to add my link to my list of 20!
https://readerinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2019/04/classics-club-spin-20.html
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I’m so excited to participate in my very first spin!
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